Even a small action can make someone’s day. Always be kind to people. Shouldn’t have to be said but these days not everyone is.
Even a small action can make someone’s day. Always be kind to people. Shouldn’t have to be said but these days not everyone is.
Existence is nothing more than being god’s slaves. Because god wants us all in shitty jobs instead of following our passions, whatever they may be.
That verse you quoted doesn’t say god is a god of order. It says god is a god of peace. If he truly was a god of peace, then he would stop wars. Let’s say you’re walking on the street and see a mugging happening, the person getting mugged is not screaming for help or anything but you stop them anyway. They didn’t ask to be helped, but it kept them safe anyway. You would have violated their free will, but kept them safe and peaceful. A god of peace would violate people’s free will if it meant keeping them safe.
Is he that powerful that he can stop evil but chooses not to? Then it’s clear that god is not good. We can’t fully be in control if someone is behind our backs pulling the strings. if we really had free will, god wouldn’t be in control and would let us do what we like.
It could take hundreds or thousands of years but no one person deserves unending punishment for finite sins.
And all those events were planned under the lense of calvinism which you had no control of planning it yourself so predestination and no free will.
It’s not that diffcuilt to understand so I don’t know why you assumed I would find it diffcuilt to understand. I’m not that religious myself, I’m more agnostic but I’m happy to have respectful conversations about different viewpoints than mine.
There are a few verses which state god planned everything that would happen in this world. Romans 8:29-30 “For those God foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.”
Ephesians 1:5 and 11 “He predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will… In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will.”
So it’s not difficult to understand with these verses that in the lense of calvinism, god planned everything that would happen in this world and knew exactly what would happen.
No good god would make an unlasting punishment. if you have forever, then even Hitler, Dahmer would have enough time for a finite punishment. Even the worst people in the world don’t deserve a unlasting punishment.
Ok, I misrembered the details so my bad on that one. What it actually teaches was that god created the serpent, put the serpent in the garden, knew Adam and eve wouldn’t resist the serpent so god still wanted all the wars and misery in this world.
There’s actually a specific christian worldview called Calvinism where the view is that god wanted Adam and Eve to eat the apple and God was the snake on the tree which means god wanted all the wars on earth if you believe that view.
But did you choose which atoms make up you? I think there is no free will because we’re don’t choose out of all options what atoms we get, we are just thrown into a random atom combination.
I have read Marx, thank you very much and you even said I was right about what communism means so maybe you should take a look at your own reading list.
Well there’s never been any real communsim on earth yet so that’s technically correct.
Says there’s communist countries, lists off all capitalist countries instead.
All of those countries have used money, had a class system, have used wage slave labour and are nation states. All of that combined makes a nation capitalist in my view. Just because a country says it’s “communist” doesn’t mean anything when all those countries are playing the capitalist rule set. It’s like saying you’re going to play candy land but you have the rules of monopoly. It just doesn’t work to call those countries communist or socialist when they are still playing the capitalist rule set.
There’s never been any real communism. If a country has money then it is inherently a capitalist society .
Brainwashing from the moment they were born
So I guess it’s free speech as long as you agree with the goverment’s speech. If not, then it’s a crime.
I have looked into that, but thanks for the suggestion anyway.